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This article addresses the topic of the career inequalities of low-skilled cleaning operatives in international humanitarian organizations in Cameroon. It takes an innovative approach, focusing on the analysis of these inequalities in a field that nevertheless advocates equality, equity, and human development. Drawing on ethical theories of care and labor market segmentation, it shows how these workers, particularly women, are victims of major career inequalities, because of both the gendered norms associated with care work and the hybrid nature of their profession, involving both domestic work and office maintenance. This hybridity is accompanied by limitations concerning access to training and professional mobility. These limitations are themselves due to the low level of education of cleaning staff in a humanitarian sector that has become highly professionalized.